Custom cursor using startDrag

Hello everyone,
I have a movieclip following my mouse to act as a custom cursor.
I am using startDrag on the movie clip and mouse.hide()
What I am trying to resolve is the following:
I have several hidden simple button objects in the background of my flash movie. ( I am using these to detect when the user has the mouse in certain areas of the flash movie)
When i go to move over these simple buttons, my custom cursor movieclip stops following the mouse cursor. Normally my cursor would also then change to the Hand cursor, but i disabled that.
Can anyone think of any method or hack that would make this work for me? I would like my custom cursor following the mouse pointer at all times even when hovering over a simple button.
thanks in advance.

The cursor changes to hand cursor yet?
When you say "single button Several hidden objects", the number is?

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